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If it's a woman it's caustic, if it's a man it's authority, If it's a woman it's too pushy, if it's a man it's aggressive in the best sense of the word.
Barbara Walters
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Barbara Walters
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: September 25
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Boston
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Barbara Jill Walters
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A woman can do anything. She can be traditionally feminine and that's all right she can work, she can stay at home she can be aggressive she can be passive she can be any way she wants with a man. But whenever there are the kinds of choices there are today, unless you have some solid base, life can be frightening.
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The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.
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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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The feeling is that Fidel Castro's much bigger than he actually is.
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I didn't get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.
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Homogeneity is much to be admired - in milk, for instance - but not for parties.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
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The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition.
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This is what I tell, especially young women, fight the big fights. Don't fight the little fight... Be the first one in, be the last one out. Do your homework, choose your battles. Don't whine, and don't be the one who complains about everything. Fight the big fight.
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People sinking into self-pity and depression are dreary, but they can't get out of it by themselves. So every now and then, just sit there and listen, and listen, and listen. You're paying your membership dues in the human race.
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Large cocktail parties are an infamous technique for ridding yourself of social obligations to people you usually don't know well or like much, which is such an unpromising beginning that I've rarely known one that recovered and turned into a great party.
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A conversation isn't a competition.
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Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.
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Because there are so many shows on and because I've been so hands-on - I've had a piece on almost every single week - I don't know how to cut back on that. You really can't.
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To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
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If it's a woman, it's caustic if it's a man, it's authoritative.
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